Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:35:19 +0100 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] page_cgroup: Reduce allocation overhead for page_cgroup array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM |
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On Thu 24-02-11 08:52:27, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:19:22 -0800 > Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 16:10 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > We can reduce this internal fragmentation by splitting the single > > > page_cgroup array into more arrays where each one is well kmalloc > > > aligned. This patch implements this idea. > > > > How about using alloc_pages_exact()? These things aren't allocated > > often enough to really get most of the benefits of being in a slab. > > That'll at least get you down to a maximum of about PAGE_SIZE wasted. > > > > yes, alloc_pages_exact() is much better. > > packing page_cgroups for multiple sections causes breakage in memory hotplug logic.
I am not sure I understand this. What do you mean by packing page_cgroups for multiple sections? The patch I have posted doesn't do any packing. Or do you mean that using a double array can break hotplog? Not that this would change anything, alloc_pages_exact is really a better solution, I am just curious ;)
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